xx, 394 pages 22 cm

Chronicles key battles, military expeditions, rebellions, mutinies, etc. during Queen Victoria's reign

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-382)

Opening shots of the reign, 1837-42 -- War in China, 1840-54 -- Sind and Sikhs: a Napier and a Gough, 1843-45 -- The First Sikh War, 1845-46 -- The Second Sikh War, 1848-49 -- Other wars in other places, 1848-54 -- Crimea: the Light Brigade and all that, 1854-55 -- Mutiny in India, 1857 -- The dangerous days, 1857 -- The siege and relief of Lucknow, 1857 -- Final relief of Lucknow and end of the mutiny, 1857-58 -- China and elsewhere, 1858-61 -- The north-west frontier, 1855-63 -- The Umbeyla campaign, 1863 -- Africa, 1863-68 -- Wolseley: Red River and army reform, 1870-73 -- Wolseley in Ashantiland, 1873-74 -- Roberts's war, 1878-79 -- From Kabul to Kandahar, 1879-80 -- Zulus, 1878-79 -- Incidents in the Zulu War, 1879 -- Poor Sir George Colley, 1881 -- Wolseley versus Arabi and the queen, 1881-82 -- The Sudan I: heroes in distress, 1883-84 -- The Sudan II: too late! 1884-85 -- Troubles on the empire's fringes: Manipur and Chitral, 1890-95 -- The frontier aflame, 1897 -- Tirah, 1897-98 -- Back to the Sudan, 1896-98 -- The Boer War I: 1899 -- The Boer War II: 1900

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